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Examining Critical and Near-Critical Paths: An Excel-Based Classroom Exercise
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Conant, Donald D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author's goals in this exercise were to use an Excel project to teach students about the effects of changing states of nature on critical path emergence as well as compare the impact of the PERT beta and triangular distributions on project completion times. Previous research into the PERT (program evaluation and review technique) beta…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Spreadsheets, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Evaluation
Strategically Focused Training in Six Sigma Way: A Case Study
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Pandey, Ashish – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to examine the utility of Six Sigma interventions as a performance measure and explore its applicability for making the training design and delivery operationally efficient and strategically effective. Design/methodology/approach: This is a single revelatory case study. Data were collected from multiple…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intervention, Training Methods, Interviews
INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL PATH SCHEDULING.
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HITCHCOCK, R.P.; BLISS, SHIRLEY – 1964
INFORMATION IS PRESENTED FOR STUDENT USE IN LEARNING PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT), A PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USED TO PLAN, CONTROL, AND EVALUATE PROJECTS. THE MATERIAL WAS PREPARED IN THE IBM DISTRICT 15 EDUCATIONAL CENTER TO BE USED IN VOCATIONAL CLASSES. THE TECHNIQUE WAS DEVELOPED DURING 1958 BY THE NAVY FOR APPLYING…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Evaluation Methods, Program Administration, Program Costs
The Use of Path Analysis in Program Evaluation. No. 12.
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Smith, Nick L.; Murray, Stephen L. – 1978
Path analysis, a technique related to multiple regression analysis is used for ascribing causal relationships among variables. Path analysis involves the construction of explicitly formulated causal models and makes the reasoning explicit in the form of path diagrams and structural equations. Regression analysis is then used to construct path…
Descriptors: Correlation, Critical Path Method, Data Analysis, Educational Research
Media Implementation Through Teamed Supervision. Evaluation: Title Three, ESEA.
Boardman Local School District, Youngstown, OH. – 1969
The procedures and techniques developed to evaluate a project to implement media in elementary schools are discussed. To describe the decision-making setting, two necessary conditions--understanding (high or low) and amount of change (large or small)--were paired against each other resulting in four possible evaluation settings. The situation in…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
Critical Pathways to School Readiness: Implications for First 5 Ventura County Strategic Planning, Funding and Evaluation
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Thompson, Lisa; Tullis, Ericka; Franke, Todd; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2005
The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities (CHCFC) has developed the School Readiness Critical Pathways (SRCPs) as an evidence-based conceptual model that links related outcomes and strategies. This helps to organize an array of broad and diffuse evidence regarding the strategies that produce school readiness outcomes for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Strategic Planning, School Readiness, Models